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Post to the west Maida Vale
Aberdeen Place
St.Marylebone generating station long windowless facade which, as can be seen from letters on the
far end ('ST.MA') is but a fragment of St Marylebone Borough's generating
station (1906-1962). Both this and the nearby St John's Wood generating station
were sited to use the canal for delivery of coal, removal of ashes and to
provide cooling water.
St.John's Wood generating station
New housing,
built 1979. Replaced flats built by the Great Central Railway (GCR) for people displaced
by the building of Marylebone goods yard.
24 'Crocker's' was The Crown - also called Crocker's Folly. Late Victorian pub
built in 1898 by Frank Crocker who hoped it would be opposite Marylebone
Station - half mile out. A lively free classical
pub of 1898. It is now named after its
developer. Allegedly, Thomas Crocker thought the site
was intended for the railway's passenger terminus, his 'folly' pub being built
for the expected trade
Canal workers house
Flats a block of 1951 in the austerely progressive
manner of the early post-war years:
Alma Square
Battle of the 1850s
Heroes of Alma, wall of old track way
Ascham Street?
36 Kenby, manufacturing chemist, Idris & Co.
Blomfield Road
Browning Close
Canal
Canal from Paddington planned to go along the new road and
keep the goods traffic off it. Metropolitan Line in fact goes under it. Thomas
Homer wanted to build it to Limehouse and Rennie said ok and Nash said ok, go
through the Park and look at the nice boats. It communicated with all the
ornamental water in the Park.
East side of Lisson Grove Bridge. The canal broadens and
wharfs on the right bank where boats loaded and unloaded at the freight yards
of the Marylebone railway. Alongside Westminster City
Council's Lisson Green housing estate. The canal is wide enough for working
boats to be moored on both sides.
Pad stones of
bridges which used to carry railway sidings over the canal to goods yard
Walls supported by iron girders high above the Water.
Plan to build a restaurant but no.
Maida Hill
Tunnel. This
goes under the Edgeware Road and is c 370 yards long and 26'9" wide. Water
4 ft deep with a roof 10ft above the water.
The Metre lengths are marked in white paint through it. There was No towing path through the tunnel
boats so boats were legged or poled through.
In 1855 there was skating through the tunnel in severe ice and Skaters
whistled like trains as they went.
Designed by James Morgan, Engineer to the canal company.
Steep curving path which was the way horses crossing Maida Hill Tunnel to be reunited
with their boats. The Horses had to go along over the tunnel at high level,
cross Lisson Grove and return to the tow path down the cobbled path on the
other side of the next bridge and then go back up to the tunnel mouth
Canal worker's house. Straddles the tunnel at the far end
CEGB 80 KV cable
running along the tow path. From the
transformer station they run eastwards.
Modern sub-station occupies part of the site of St John's Wood generating station,
built by Central Electricity Generating Co. 1904, and demolished 1972.
Site of premises of the Thames Bank Iron
Company, which moved here in 1926 from a riverside site
near Waterloo.
North bank past Tunnel St Marylebone stone yard with
travelling crane to put stone in barges now a youth club. Victoria narrow boat
there given by M&S in 1985 for 400 anniversary of City of Westminster
Tow path goes under Lisson Grove and house as a bridge
Handrail now because the roof of the bridge is horse
height
Railway bridges
carrying lines from Marylebone. Similar to those removed, carried GCR main line
trains to Marylebone from Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester, but are now
used only by local services.
Railway bridge for
Metropolitan Line to Watford and Chesham; this section opened in 1868 as the
Metropolitan & St John's Wood Railway.
Tunnel the tow path rises so that a horse could get over
the top
Capland Street
Supposed to be haunted by children crying
Circus Road,
Start of Great British Circus, supposed to go all round
St.John's Wood, mile in circumference, outer ring 66 yards, etc., 42 acres in
the centre, Napoleonic war ended it, 1803
11 Princess Royal
Hospital of St.John and St.Elizabeth
Thompson
Clarendon Gardens
Clifton Gardens
9 Sir John
Ambrose Fleming 1849-1945. Plaque
says ‘dentist and electrical engineer lived here'.
Clifton Road,
Cunningham Place,
Old track way on line of electricity narrow passage
17 plaque to Emily Davis grandmother f. Girton College,
encouraged other women like Elizabeth Garratt-Anderson
10a villa, one of Landseer's houses,
18 formal terrace with taller centre and end
houses unusually designed with big paterae.
An Arab stud for the architect J. W. Wild.
Housing cul de sacs of two- to four-storey housing
Gollins Melvin Ward & Partners for Westminster. They replaced the cramped flats of
Wharncliffe Gardens built by the Great Central Railway for the population
displaced from the line into Marylebone Station.
Edgeware Road
Original name was Maida Hill for the section north of the
canal and also later Maida Hill East.
Middle level interceptor sewer beneath it
Hill House. Became
Winchester Place and then Pine Apple Place. Housing built all round it in the
19th
18-20 Tyburn. Opened in the year 2000, and converted from a
Whistlestop supermarket, this Wetherspoon's pub has a cafe-style design. The name refers to the notorious Tyburn Gate
where public hangings took place in medieval London
63 Macaulay
Hero of Maida
Inn. 1806. Stands near the canal
bridge, which commemorates his name. He
hero was Major General Sir John Stuart who in 1806 won a battle against the
French at Maida in southern Italy.
Elizabeth Close
Elm Tree Road
Built on the site of Oak Tree Field
17 Thomas Hood, poet, London County Council plaque
Elm Tree Mansions, Jacobs
Fairlop Place
Used to be Oak Tree Field.
1898 renamed for the Fairlop Oak.
Fisherton Street
Fisherton Estate H. V. Ashley and F. Winterton Newman for the
borough. 1924
Francesca Street?
20 Spencer
31 Blyth
Garden Road
Added in 1820 in Greek revivalist style
Grove End Road
St.John's Wood Lane on old maps, track along side of farm
at St.John's Wood Station, links Lisson Grove and Abbey Road Flats invaded the area
from the beginning of the C 20
44 Greco-Egyptian additions to an older
structure. Flats. Home of Tissot and Alma Tadema. Garden colonnades
44a Greco-Egyptian additions to an older
structure. Was originally the covered, Entrance to
the house.
Scott Ellis Gardens , 1903, built by the
Howard de Walden estate to rehouse tenants from Portland Town.
Grove
End House dates
from 1913,
4/16 studios
5 Cornwall
31 Sir Thomas Beecham
Hall Road
Site of Vale Court was the Pineapple Nursery 1793
Tollgate there north of Hall Road. Pineapple tollgate.
1931 Cropthorne Court and Westmore Grove Frere Court 1935.
Vale Court is a 'modern bijou residences' Valley Court
1935.
Hamilton Court 1928
Grove Hall Court This was completed in 1936, and contains 200
flats.
Hamilton Close
Line of old track
Hamilton Gardens
Byron statue
Dodds
Hamilton Road?
St Saviour's Almshouses
Hamilton Terrace
Harrow School Estate called after a school governor
1 Gould
17 Bazalgette
Joanna Southcott
St Mark
20 William Strang
63 Pinero
116 Lush front garden full of dramatic foliage with
a water feature and tree ferns.
Hill Road
Lilestone Estate
Built in response to the bad
conditions in Lisson Green and finished after the Second World War. Mainly standard neo-Georgian blocks of
between the wars estates, with plainer post-war additions. Landscaping and
playground by Trevor Dannatt undertaken in the 1970s.
Lisson Grove
19 Florence Nightingale Hospital Institute for Sick
Governess. 1850 Chandos Street. Florence Nightingale Superintendent, 1853 in
Harley Street. Renamed Hospital for
Gentlewomen in Illness, rebuilt in 1909 here.
Land is part of the Fitzroy Nuffield Hospital
Marylebone Grammar School was the old Philological College
in 1792;
Sea Shell chip shop;
13 Leigh Hunt;
RC church of Our Lady built in 1836
Thames Bank Iron Co. 1926 from Waterloo on canal side
St. John's Wood generating station to CEGC 1904-1977
replaced by modern sub-station;
Upside down house on
canal bank
Top by the railway commemorative stone about Lords Cricket
Ground there in the 1930s
116 Benjamin Haydon Charles Rossi Bacon
Toll gate on junction with new road site of Philological
School became St.Marylebone Grammar School
Lodge Road
Generating Station subdued with its angular wooden cooling
towers, like a bizarre animal, Liverpool Architectural school singing swags and
garlands, yellow brick, bloody great, Demolished
Lyons Place
Maida Hill Tunnel
Built by Pritchard and Hoof. Begun 1812 as the first canal tunnel in
London. Second longest after Islington.
Portman Estate would not allow them to go through their area so their
had to be a diversion.
Maida Vale
Built mostly between 1830 and 1840,
was formerly called Edgware Road, of which it is the continuation. In 1868 the Metropolitan Board of Works wanted to change the name to Kilburn
Road but inhabitants petitioned
for the name to be altered to Maida Vale. The road is about a mile long and
runs from the Regent's Canal to Kilburn High Road. It takes its name from Maida, a town in
Calabria, Italy, where Sir John Stuart defeated the French in 1806 but the
original name of Maida Hill is largely disused.. At the southern end it makes a slight curve,
and from St. John's Wood Road to Hall Road, both sides are lined with blocks of
flats, separated from the footpath by drives and gardens.
Cropthorne Court, comer of Hall Road, erected in 1931, includes
a branch of the Westminster Bank by Sir Giles Scott,
Clarendon Court. Had its own restaurant and theatre booking
office. Became a hotel
Florence Court, erected in 1935
Vale Court, corner of Hall Road
Row of modern bijou
residences.
Wellesley Court, an extensive block of flats completed in
1935. This stands back in a private
carriage drive and has a frontage to Abercorn Place. by Frank Scarlett, 1936.
1930s designs seem subtle in comparison with the mediocre insertions,
Hamilton Court, block of flats, completed in 1938, which also
has a second frontage to Elgin Avenue. by Beresford Mars
Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous diseases. Founded in 1866 for epilepsy and paralysis and became part of the
National Hospital, Queen's Square. 84 beds. The first hospital to identify and
operate on a brain tumour.
9 Clifton Gardens, Ambrose Fleming
23 Potter
108 Amis
134 Symons
136 William
Friese-Greene – the inventor of cine film. 1855-1921.
140 Islamic Centre of England. Opened 1998.
Maida Vale Studios on the site of a skating rink. BBC studios for the BBC Symphony
Orchestra. Used for Radio 1 live music sessions and especially by John Peel.
Melina Place,
Part of old track way goes along the garden walls
Villas
remain
3 Toynbee
4 Colman
5 Machen
North Bank
1813 Built by Burton/for prosperous tradesmen
21 Lewes
36 Mary Shelley
41 Huxley
Northwick Terrace
Christ Church Chapel
7 Hewlett
Oak Tree Road
Pineapple Place?
Romney
Randolph Mews
Supply station
one of the 'Metropolitan Electric Supply Company's sub-stations remains. Built
1927, now disused. See initials in brickwork.
Randolph Road
10 Tiennel 1853-1909
Covers in the
pavement are marked 'Metropolitan Electric Supply Ltd'.
Railway
Lords tunnel 1898. No ventilation but an internal bridge
sat St John’s Wood Road
Robert Close
Rossmore Road
St.Paul's Bentinck School
Scott Ellis Gardens
Part of the Harley estate, 1966 T.Scott sold it to Harley
St John's Wood New Town.
Site of St. John's Farm pulled down i1830 and was a part
of the Forest of Middlesex. Name from the Priors of St. John of Jerusalem.
St. John's Wood
Was given by the Priors of the area who owned it
Babbington lived there.
Royal Archaeological Institute
St.John's Wood Road,
Laid out 1819 on the Eyre Estate
1 Landseer lived may have been Punkers Barn
Lord's
Cricket Ground. Here are played in June and July the Eton and
Harrow, Oxford and Cambridge, and other great matches. The
site was the area of duck pond for Punkers Barn. The Middlesex Cricket Club,
moved here in 1814, having started at White Conduit. Moved in nineteenth century from Dorset
Square. In 1968 it became a wider body. The canal affects the site and the
surface is levelled with spoil from Maida Hill tunnel. . Main
entrance designed by Herbert Baker as a memorial to W.G.Grace. Above the central pillar are stumps and bails
with a bat and a ball and a lion.
Members' Pavilion. Listed grade II* and dates from 1889-90. It was fully refurbished
and extended in 2005 by the architects Ettwein Bridges. This included a new
roof terrace and restored viewing turrets. Built in terra cotta. There is a
Cricket memorial gallery, with the ashes and memorials to cricketers 1865 - A fascinating collection of trophies,
pictures, and everything to do with cricket.
.It followed an Appeal for a museum, and until
1953 it was in the members' pavilion
Mound Stand, Michael Hopkins and
Partners. .
Lex Brookland garage, the most noticeable building with a pair of
unusually elegant sheds with tinted glass end wall
Lord’s Tavern
Lord’s Station 1868-1939 south side at junction with Park
Road
Clergy Orphan Schools
Thames Aqueducts. Ring main passes under here. Started from in
1960 but it Had been suggested in 1935 – a
tunnel to take water from the Thames above Teddington to North London. It is built in 102in diameter tunnel in
interlocking concrete rings for 19 miles, starts at Hampton Water Works and
finishes at the Lockwood reservoir.
Built by Sir William Halcrow & Partners.
Warrington Crescent
Corner with Clifton Gardens
St.Saviour's Gothic church, Bomb damage
19 Davidson
43 Payn
75 David Ben
Gurion 1886-1973. Plaque says
'first Prime Minister of Israel, lived here’.
93 Warrington Hotel.
Warwick Avenue
The street dates from the 1840s, but
it was so called in honour of one Jane Warwick of Warwick Hall in Cumberland
who married the heir to an estate here in 1778.
Warwick
Avenue Station.. 31st January 1915. Between
Maida Vale and Paddington on the Bakerloo Line. On the Bakerloo Line, an intermediate station on the extension to
Willesden. at the junction of Warwick Avenue, Warrington
Crescent and Clifton Gardens. For a time prior to its opening, the proposed
name for the station was’Warrington
Crescent’.
Cabmen's shelter.
One of 12 surviving shelters and mess rooms for London taximen. The first was
erected in 1875 by a hackney carriage user who took pity on the cabmen working
in all weathers; by 1915 there were 65.
Clifton Nursery.
A small up-market gardening centre
-
6 Jerrold
Warwick Road Station,
From Paddington 1915
Wellington Place
Wellington hospital
10 MacNeice
Wharncliffe Gardens
Estate on site of flats to rehouse people from Marylebone
route. a large railway
housing estate of 580 dwellings built by the Manchester Sheffield &
Lincolnshire Railway c.1895. It is a Westminster Council estate now.
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